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Carnivorous Sundews

Rather than make its food through photosynthesis, carnivorous sundews, like the ones seen here, supplement their diet by feeding on insects! The tiny tentacles have a sticky dew or “mucilage” on them…
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Get to know 2021 Trebek Grantee, campaigner and photographer with Ancient Forest Alliance, TJ Watt

Check out this new interview from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society featuring AFA Photographer & Co-Founder, TJ Watt. Last year, TJ was awarded significant support and recognition as one of…
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Thank you to our generous business supporters!

Our work to protect endangered old-growth forests in BC and ensure a sustainable second-growth forest industry would not be possible without our generous donors. Thank you to the following businesses and…
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Tooth-Leaved Monkeyflower

  A rare and beautiful flower, the yellow tooth-leaved monkeyflower (Erythranthe dentata), in Canada, is restricted to a handful of valleys on southwestern Vancouver Island. This diminutive rainforest…
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Band in BC’s Fraser Canyon proposes to protect, manage 350 sq. km swath of land

July 19, 2022 The Abbotsford News By Jessica Peters Indigenous petroglyphs, old growth forest, cultural significance at further risk: Kanaka Bar Band The wildfire that’s moving through the forests…
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Double your impact when supporting the AFA until September 7th!

  We're grateful to announce an anonymous supporter has generously offered to match donations made to the AFA dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000 until September 7th. This means for the next two…
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Redwood Sorrel

  Looking like an oversized clover, the redwood sorrel (oxalis oregana) is one of BC’s loveliest and rarest rainforest plants, found only in a few scattered sites on Vancouver Island and Haida…
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Canada’s fourth-widest tree located in North Vancouver, estimated to be over 1000 years old

  June 27, 2022 City News By Monika Gul   One of the widest trees in Canada was found in the Lynn Valley area of North Vancouver. The tree, nicknamed “The North Shore Giant”,…
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CBC News Vancouver: North Shore Giant

CBC News Vancouver has featured AFA’s Ian Thomas and Vancouver big tree hunter, Colin Spratt on their recent finding of a record-sized western redcedar nicknamed the “North Shore Giant”. See 20:20…
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Giant tree found in North Vancouver could be Canada’s fourth widest

Ancient Forest Alliance’s Ian Thomas and Vancouver big-tree hunter Colin Spratt have located Canada’s fourth-widest tree, nicknamed the "North Shore Giant" in the Lynn Headwaters Regional Park in North Vancouver. Read more.
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